I just got back from there and after 760 miles in 10 hours of driving, spending 500+ dollars...Watching Marten's seminar, and Greg Vella's, all I can say is it was worth it. Marten's seminar was good, touched on his "younger" days fishing castaic and casitas etc..., losing a 20Lber at the boat, and other thing about swimbaits that he learned including how they work back east. I think Vella should have been given more time but in the short half hour or so that he had he touched on fishing big baits in japan, and the kind of lakes that they fishand he had some Japanese bass magazines which were cool to look at. they had pictures of big baits not available in the US.. as far as i know...

Onto the tackle selection... sadly i was kind of disappointed although not completely... they didnt have any 12" slammers :'( and their selection of swimbait rods was very slim(due to the fact they were selling the rago's and other swimbaits, and the big bait craze that is going on i was kind of surprised they didnt have more)... although i did end up buying the only Rogue swimbait rod i could find... The vendors had lots of product but since i was mainly there for swimbaits i didnt look at much else... i picked up 2 of the new rago's... but i cant wait for the bigger 9"??? size to come out, they had two to show off but none to sell, look very nice...

Anyways if you are in the area(and not driving 5 hours to get there) it's well worth it to stop by and check out the baits...
Erik P.
PS. If any of you are wondering who I was... i was the red headed kid wearing a bright orange "Carrot Top" shirt... :-)

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Pretending to be a swimbait fisherman since 2001.